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How to Keep a Trading Journal That Actually Improves Your Trading
A practical guide to keeping a trading journal: what to record, when to write, how to review it each week and how to turn your notes into better rules.
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How to keep a trading journal that actually improves your results: what to record, how to review it and how to turn notes into rules.
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What to Record in a Trading Journal: 15 Fields That Matter
The fields every trading journal should have, from entry and exit details to setup, mistakes, emotions and execution rating, with examples of each.
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Trading Journal Template: A Simple Layout You Will Keep Using
A free trading journal template for daily, per-trade and weekly entries, with the exact questions to answer and how to adapt it for stocks, options and futures.
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The Weekly Trading Review: A 30-Minute Routine That Compounds
How to run a weekly trading review: the numbers to check, the questions to ask, and how to pick one change for next week. Includes a step-by-step routine.
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Trading Journal App vs Spreadsheet: Which Should You Use?
The pros and cons of tracking trades in Excel or Google Sheets versus a dedicated trading journal, and when it makes sense to switch.
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How to Tag Your Trades: Setups, Mistakes and Market Conditions
A simple tagging system for your trading journal that makes it easy to see which setups make money and which mistakes cost the most.
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Pre-Market Routine: A Checklist for Every Trading Day
A step-by-step pre-market routine and checklist for day traders: market context, watchlist, levels, risk limits and a mental check before the open.
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12 Post-Trade Review Questions That Reveal Your Real Mistakes
The questions to ask after each trade and each session to separate bad luck from bad decisions, with examples of honest answers.
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Using Chart Screenshots in Your Trading Journal
Why chart screenshots make your trading journal more useful, what each screenshot should show, and how to review them to find patterns in your entries and exits.
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How to Journal Your Emotions While Trading (and Why It Pays)
Recording your mood before and after trading reveals how emotions affect your results. Here is a simple method and how to analyze what you find.
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Monthly Trading Performance Review: What to Measure and Why
A monthly review routine for traders: the key metrics to track month over month, how to compare months fairly, and how to set goals for the next month.
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Find Your Best Trading Hours by Analyzing Results by Time of Day
How to analyze your trading results by hour of the day, why most day traders do best in certain windows, and what to do with what you find.
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Day-of-Week Trading Performance: Do You Trade Worse on Mondays?
How to analyze your trading results by weekday, the common patterns traders find, and how to use them without overfitting.
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The Trading Calendar Heatmap: Seeing Your Results Day by Day
How a P&L calendar heatmap helps you spot losing streaks, overtrading and patterns in your trading, and what to look for when you review it.